'Green' Positions on Climate Change Can Help All Candidates, Survey Finds:

The latest round of national research is based on telephone interviews with 1,000 participants, who were asked how they would vote for a hypothetical Senate candidate in their state based on a series of issues, including climate change. Leading the Stanford research team was Jon Krosnick, a professor of communication and political science, who has been looking at public attitudes on environmental issues since the late 1990s. This survey was designed to determine the extent to which politicians’ positions on climate change might win or lose votes. Climate change is not an issue that would generally determine a voter’s choice, but it could influence it.